Maryland Delegate Marvin Holmes [D]

Providing that a privately owned transportation project in the State that includes the construction of one or more tunnels with a diameter of 6 feet or greater that will be primarily used by a common carrier may not be constructed and the State may n...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring a landlord that requires a tenant to make payments for water or sewer utility services to the landlord to use a written lease that includes a notice that the tenant is responsible for making payments for water or sewer utility services to t...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a process through which an individual who purchases a license, permit, or registration through the electronic licensing system may make a voluntary monetary donation to the Chesapeake Bay Tru...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Establishing the Community College Facilities Renewal Grant Program to provide State funds to community colleges for improvements, repairs, and deferred maintenance projects; requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to administer the Progra...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the determination of the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain deduction under the Maryland income tax; requiring the Bureau of Revenue Estimates, in consultation with the Consensus Revenue Monitoring and For...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Extending the termination date to September 30, 2022, for certain provisions of law authorizing certain hybrid vehicles to use a certain high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane regardless of the number of passengers under certain circumstances; extending t...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring, for a development with 11 or more homes to be built by the same builder, a home builder to provide a purchaser with written information on energy-efficient options, including a statement that tax credits may be available related to the ene...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Expanding the definition of "offshore drilling activity" to mean the exploration, development, production or transportation of oil or gas on or under the outer continental shelf; establishing that an offshore drilling activity is an ultrahazardous an...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Governor to include the State as a member of the U.S. Climate Alliance on or before July 1, 2018; prohibiting the Governor from withdrawing the State from the U.S. Climate Alliance unless the General Assembly enacts a law approving the ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the definition of the construction practice term "Coast Smart" to include highway facilities; requiring the Coast Smart Council in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Transportation, to establish Coast ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain guidelines by December 1, 2018, for public schools regarding the administration of health care services to students with sickle cell disease; requi...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering, from a 6-month to a 12-month period, the length for which a certain insurer, nonprofit health service plan, and health maintenance organization is required to provide coverage for a single dispensing of a supply of prescription contraceptiv...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Repealing certain provisions of law that authorize under certain circumstances, a person to plant, cultivate, process, sell, or buy industrial hemp in the State; repealing an authorization for the Department of Agriculture or an institution of higher...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Enabling private entities to accept the use of a certain substitute address by a victim of domestic abuse who is a participant in an address confidentiality program; requiring any person to accept a certain address of a participant in an address conf...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the training course that the State Ethics Commission is required to provide for regulated lobbyists and prospective regulated lobbyists; prohibiting a certain State official from unlawfully harassing or discriminating against certain individ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Head Start Program in the State to be referred to as the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program; and requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of at least $3,000,000 for the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program in each annual budget su...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Secretary of Transportation to withhold a portion of the State's annual operating grant to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Transportation to provide an annual g...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to establish procedures that require a foreclosure purchaser to submit to the Foreclosed Property Registry any change to certain information within 21 days after the change is known to the ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Making unenforceable certain provisions of certain condominium governing documents and other documents relating to asserting certain claims against a developer or vendor; applying the Act prospectively; etc.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to identify homeowners who may be eligible but have failed to apply for the homestead property tax credit; and requiring the Department to include a separate insert with each assessment notic...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a declaration of a condominium to provide for the suspension of the use of certain common elements by a unit owner that is more than 60 days in arrears in the payment of any assessment due; requiring a declaration containing a certain sus...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Patuxent Institution and each local correctional facility and each correctional facility in the Division of Correction to have a written policy and procedure in place requiring that menstrual hygiene products be provided at no cost to a...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the amounts of and process for appropriating highway user funds that are required to be distributed to Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities in certain fiscal years; requiring that certain capital highway grants may be made only under...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the process by which a person who is denied a certain handgun permit or renewal of a permit or whose permit is revoked or limited may appeal the decision; providing that appeals from a certain decision by the Secretary or the Secretary's des...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Exempting from certain real property recordation, transfer, and excise taxes and certificate of title fees certain transfers of real property and certain vehicles from a revocable trust to a beneficiary of the trust as a result of the death of the se...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring a mobile home park owner to provide certain notice to each resident in the park within 5 days of entering into a contract of sale for the mobile home park; requiring a park owner who intends to offer the renewal of a certain lease agreement...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a court to include in an order appointing a guardian of the person of a disabled person the duty to foster and preserve certain family relationships under certain circumstances.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the defined term "emergency vehicle" to include certain organ delivery vehicles; authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to designate an organ delivery vehicle as an emergency vehicle only if it is registered to a federally designated o...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the eligibility for a credit authorized against the county or municipal corporation property tax for certain veterans to include certain surviving spouses of certain veterans; and providing that the Act shall be applicable to all taxable yea...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the date from November 15 to November 1 by which a member of the General Assembly may request the Department of Legislative Services to prepare a bill for prefile at a regular session under certain circumstances; and altering the date from t...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring a custodian to deny inspection of a distribution list and a request to be added to a distribution list that identifies a physical address, an e-mail address, or a telephone number of an individual that is used by a governmental entity or an...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a county board of education to extend the length of the school year for up to 5 school days beyond June 15 without approval from the State Board of Education; and requiring a county board to submit a written application to the State Board...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Prince George's County Boys & Girls Club, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovatio...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Bowie for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, site impro...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Establishing certain requirements for the appointment and removal of the inspector general of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority by the Board of Directors of the Authority; specifying certain powers and requirements of the inspector g...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Bowie for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovations, reconstruction, site impr...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $2,500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Green Branch Management Group, Corp. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, re...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $50,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Trustees of the Judah Temple A.M.E. Zion Church for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Bowie Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, r...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to limit the uses of certain revenues to educational opportunities and programs for the children of the State in public schools, the advancement of educators, and the construction of school faciliti...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Reducing the notice period from 14 days to 7 days before a landlord may file an action to evict a tenant for a breach of the lease that involves certain dangerous behavior; altering the requirements for the written notice that a landlord must give be...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland estate tax for certain decedents; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the Maryland estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2019; providing that,...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing all counties and municipal corporations to release liens for unpaid real property taxes or other charges and assessments to facilitate a transfer of real property if certain conditions are satisfied; authorizing a county or municipal corp...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Applying to the U.S. Congress for an amendments convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that authorizes r...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Applying provisions of the Assisted Housing Preservation Act to an owner of an assisted project that pays or intends to pay in full as of the maturity date certain mortgage financing; applying certain provisions to an owner of an assisted project on ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Establishing the Home Sprinkler and Fire Safety Assistance Fund to provide grants to offset the costs of installing a sprinkler system when purchasing a home; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the Fund; requi...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to include as part of a driver's license examination a demonstration of the license applicant's ability to parallel park a motor vehicle.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Prohibiting a certain reporting agency from issuing a public notice of solicitation for a public-private partnership unless the reporting agency provided certain notice and an opportunity to submit written comments to certain counties and municipalit...[Detail][Text][Discuss]